Hoodia Clinical Trials

There are frequent statements that hoodia has no clinical trials, that hoodia hasn´t clinically been proved or so. There is a strong misconception.

Surely, as any new natural product, it takes years to conduct serious research and perform clinical trials. If we compare hoodia research or hoodia clinical trials with aloe research or aloe clinical trials (a plant into the same family and with same origins), it is obvious that aloe show a completely different situation. But such a difference is explained because aloe has more than 50 years of continous research. We wil see more hoodia clinical trials in the years to come. Absolutely.

But the first hoodia clinical trials are not the Phytopharm clinical trials, as usually cited. The first hoodia clinical trials, started with the CSIR research team at South Africa back in the 90s. Such research is the base for the claims made under the patent 6376657 filed at the United States Patent & Trademark Office (USPTO) in 1999, and granted to a group of CSIR researchers headed by Van heerden and others.

There, at the final of the patent full document is a statement reading as follows:

"An important feature of the invention shown by the results of this study is that no tolerance to any of the samples developed over the test period. This may provide considerable benefit, particularly in relation to the use of the compounds and compositions of the invention in the treatment of obesity."

"While the compounds and compositions of the invention have primarily been described in relation to their properties as appetite suppressants, it should be noted that this expression--"appetite suppressant"--is used herein to denote activity which tends to limit appetite and/or increase the sense of satiety, and thus tends to reduce total calorific intake; this in turn tends to counteract obesity. Accordingly, this invention extends to a method of treating, preventing or combating obesity in a human or non-human animal which comprises administering to said human or non-human animal an obesity treating, preventing or combating amount of a compound of formula (2). A preferred embodiment of this aspect of the invention utilises a composition or extract containing a compound of formula (1)."

"The term "animal" as used herein extends to, but is not restricted to, companion animals, e.g. household pets and domesticated animals; non-limiting examples of such animals include cattle, sheep, ferrets, swine, camels, horses, poultry, fish, rabbits, goats, dogs and cats."

"As an anorectic agent or in the treatment or prevention of obesity in a human, a compound of formula (2), preferably of formula (1), or the composition defined in any one of claims 9 and 25-31 hereafter, is advantageously administered to said human in a dosage amount of from about 0.01 mg/kg/day to about 10 mg/kg/day. A preferred dosage range is 0.05 mg/kg/day to 0.5 mg/kg/day. When using the spray dried powder form of the extract of this invention, a preferred dosage range is 0.1 mg/kg/day to 20 mg/kg/day; especially preferred is 0.5 mg/kg/day to 5 mg/kg/day. "

You may read those statements directly at the USPTO home page clicking here.

Above comments confirm our suggestion to take a hoodia dossage of 1200 mg a day, specially when you are obese or overweight.

This is the first hoodia clinical trial developed several years back, and the basis for the development of hoodia as an appetite supresant plant. After that came Phytopharm with hoodia clinical trials in humans.

Before taking hoodia always consult your doctor.

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